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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Duke is definitely more prestigious, and its alumni connections would likely reflect that. That is a consideration IMO for throughout one’s career. Also, facilities at a private university are going to be superior to a state school, even one as good as UVA. If you can swing it financially, I’d go with Duke. [/quote]

Ehh....

Growing up in the fancy private school world in Baltimore, Duke and UVA were close enough in prestige. UVA was, and I'm sure it is, very popular even as an OOS option for affluent preppy southern-leaning families and all their UVA bound kids go into finance or law or investment management and do extremely well in life. Duke had some preppies, but also an equal amount of dorkies.

There's quite a few UVA alums working on Wall Street. UVA is very respected and has a long history. Duke alum circles aren't particularly more impressive especially outside the mid-Atlantic. I wouldn't pay to go to Duke if UVA was the in-state option unless money was absolutely no issue whatsoever.

FYI I went to an Ivy. The notion of prestige really greatly drops after your first post-Ivy job. Only HYP, and even then I'd argue only Harvard, can carry you further simply based on the school name. [/quote]

You can talk around this all you want, but at the same price point (OOS for UVA), Duke is very highly favored over UVA among cross-admits.  Parchment has it at 82% Duke to 18% UVA.  Assuming the in-state component of this is more favorable to UVA, probably 9 out of 10 or more may prefer Duke over UVA.  It is only the price differential for in-state applicants that puts this in a different context.[/quote]

[b]How often is the higher ranked school NOT favored among cross-admits?  Almost never happens.  That didn't seem to be the OP's question.  They were asking whether the cost premium for Duke is worth the "favored"/prestige premium.  To me, that's a personal finance question.  But if I faced that decision, I'd steer to UVA.  [/quote][/b]

Plus no one in the world of college admissions actually pays attention to Parchment - their pool is too small.[/quote]

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